innersource

Open Source, InnerSource, CRA?

August 26, 2024
innersource, Open Source, cra, isc, oss, upstream

Open Source, InnerSource, CRA? # A couple days ago on Mastodon I read a post from by Robert Sander (here translated from German): “At FrOSCon I got the impression the FLOSS community is aging together. Where are people in their mid-twenties, new people entering the community?” “Entering the open source community” - what does that even mean? Does it mean creating a public GitHub repo and publishing source code there? ...

How hard can it be: Open Source contributions

April 25, 2024
Open Source, innersource, contributions, learning

How hard can it be: Open Source contributions # “Sharing is caring - if only more downstream users simply contributed to the open source software that they depend upon.” - a thought that has crossed my mind more than once in the past decades. Except - for your average software engineer in industry “contributing to open source” is anything but simple. In addition it’s anything but obvious why - on top of daily work - one should commit time to open source. ...